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Our Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To…
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say;…
- Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among…
- Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its…
- It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
- May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
- Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
- The universe is wider than our views of it.
- While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it…
- The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to…
- Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression,…
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